didn't get the news that Qin Ming had turned the corner, Ai Lu, who went to visit the battle situation, returned to the camp first, followed by Ruan Ling and He Yan, one was solemn, the other was blood-stained in battle robes, Eleven Niang asked He Yan about his injury first, and got a "not worth mentioning" response, only to hear He Yan report a piece of news that has been counted as a few days and is slightly considered lucky.

Although earlier, Liu Hongyuan tried his best to attack, and once almost captured Nanguan, in the end he still did not succeed, secretly outflanked He Yan and Bai Yu of the rear army in eastern Andong, led hundreds of personal guards, and used the poisonous smoke and poisonous arrows made by Tian Bucha on the way to sneak attack, so that the Andong army fell into panic for a while, Liu Hongyuan finally ordered the temporary withdrawal of the army, and the crisis of Weize Pass was temporarily lifted.

In fact, the two armies have never been short of poisonous tactics, the more extensive method is to apply poison in the arrow cluster, the poison is generally aconitum, although the poison can not see the blood to seal the throat, but the poisoned because can not be treated in time, there are often dead and wounded, in addition, the use of grass black, croton, wolf venom, arsenic/frost and so on to cast poisonous smoke, causing the enemy to bleed from the mouth and nose, temporarily lose combat effectiveness.

However, these methods were not only used by the Great Zhou, such as the Northern Liao and the Turks, so they soon found a way to detoxify, although the tactics of using poison would pose a certain threat to the enemy, but gradually it was difficult to play a greater role.

And those poisons that are extremely difficult to cure are often very difficult to refine, and it is very difficult to use them on a large scale, just like the Tian Bucha made this time, in fact, it is "copied" from the Ram's previous recipe for military operations, although it will cause the enemy to panic by surprise, but it will soon run out of poison, even if Tian Bucha is speeded up to catch up, when the Anton Army launches the next round of attack, it can only poison the opponent's 1,000 men and horses, and it will not be able to greatly damage the vitality of the Anton Army.

It's just that if Liu Hongyuan, the main general, can be shot under the poison arrow, of course, the effect will be very huge, but as the main general, he often does not take the lead, and it is certainly not easy to succeed.

Eleven Niang originally proposed to use poison to defeat the Anton army, but she was hit by He Yan, Tian Bucha and others, of course she would not be lucky at this time to think that this strange trick could lead the war to victory, and asked: "According to General He Lang, how long can Wei Ze Pass be defended?" ”

"In the absence of reinforcements, ten days at most." He Yan's expression was particularly solemn: "Many soldiers in the army have learned that Qin Wuyu was infected with the plague, and even those two captains were discouraged, but because Qin Wuyu was able to deploy a battle plan two days ago, they were not completely desperate, but in the past few days, thousands of guards have fallen ill, and under the panic of the people, many guards have been killed or injured in the attack, and the Guangyang Department now has only 20,000 horses, and it is indeed difficult to resist the strength of the Anton Army ten times. ”

Ruan Ling proposed: "Should the princess consider sending troops from Taiyuan Mansion to help first?" ”

Eleven Niang frowned: "Although the Queen Mother gave me the right to govern, the Taiyuan Mansion soldiers are controlled by Mao Wei, and I have no right to transfer them at all." ”

"Does Mao Wei dare to sit back and watch the fall of Wei Zeguan?"

"It's not about daring or not daring." Eleven Niang sighed: "Mao Wei only has the right to govern the army, if there is no military charm and edict, even he will not dare to mobilize the government soldiers, this time the epidemic broke out in Guangyang, Mao Wei promised to transfer 8,000 government soldiers to help me maintain order in the epidemic area, which is already his greatest authority, do you think he is really subdued by me?" Mao Wei is clearly not optimistic that Wei Zeguan can be defended, he helped me 8,000 soldiers, and I will not be responsible in the future, and all the blame can be put on the Wuwei Hou Department and the Jin Wang Department. ”

There are 30,000 soldiers in Taiyuan Mansion, and now they are in the hands of Mao Wei, but according to the laws of the Great Zhou, if Mao Wei, the Taiyuan Yin, if he transfers the army to fight privately without military charms and edicts, he will be regarded as complicit, Mao Wei could have completely refused Eleven Niang's request to transfer the government soldiers to Guangyang, but in order to protect himself, he agreed to transfer 8,000 soldiers first, but the task is only to maintain order in the epidemic area, and Eleven Niang does not even have the right to order these 8,000 soldiers to fight.

Of course, if the Weize Pass is lost and the 200,000 troops of the Andong Army attack Taiyuan, Mao Wei will certainly not sit back and wait for the imperial court soldiers and edicts, because although the government soldiers cannot be mobilized at will, if the town is attacked, it must be resisted.

"Does the princess think that the Queen Mother will send the forbidden army to help?" Ruan Ling asked again.

At this time, even He Yan sighed: "Don't say that Chang'an is now surrounded by tigers and wolves, it is impossible for Empress Dowager Wei to save Jinshuo regardless of self-preservation, even if she has the courage to go out to fight the forbidden army and prepare grain, grass and military supplies, she will never arrive in Guangyang within ten days." ”

"Therefore, I expected at first that the Queen Mother would at most order the requisition of the defenders of Yuxia Pass and Shuozhou to help, but at the moment, it seems that the water is far away and cannot quench the thirst of the near."

Although Yuxia Pass and Shuozhou are close, but the secret report of Eleven Niang arrived in Chang'an, Empress Dowager Wei will inevitably hesitate, summon the ministers of the government hall to negotiate, and wait to make up her mind, and issue an order to send an envoy to mobilize the army, this exchange, at least has to be delayed for ten days.

"Ruan Changshi, you go to Yunzhou quickly, hand over my handwritten letter to Wang Hengshi, inform him that Guangyang is in danger, and ask him to try his best to send troops to rescue!" Eleven Niang made a decision immediately, and at this time she could only hope for Wang Hengshi.

First, the Yunzhou Department did not obey the military orders of the imperial court, as long as Wang Jingu nodded, the reinforcements could immediately rush to Guangyang, and Wang Hengshi was quite proficient in tactics, and had also led the army to fight, and now Qin Ming, the main general, was critically ill, even if he could rejuvenate himself, it was impossible to recover immediately, let alone lead the army to fight, the Guangyang Department needed a person who could coordinate the overall situation, compared to He Yan, Bai Yu, etc., Wang Hengshi was more familiar with military affairs.

Ruan Ling saw that he couldn't help much if he stayed in Weize Pass, and he didn't bother with it, so he simply promised to fly on his horse and go straight to Yunzhou.

Shi Niang ordered again: "Mr. Tian, there are many doctors for the epidemic, and you only care about the poison in time." ”

Although poison magic cannot directly lead to victory in the war, it still has an effect on the depletion of Andong's military strength, and the intractable poison of the conventional system made by Tian Bucha may also cause panic among the enemy army, but it is certainly not useless.

Seeing that Tian Bucha also went as promised, He Yan proposed: "Should Guangyang be reported to His Highness that he is in danger now?" ”

He knew very well that even if the Yunzhou Ministry came to help, Wang Jingu would not be able to do his best, and if he wanted to completely relieve the danger of Jinshuo, of course, he still had to rely on the main force of Wuwei Hou to conquer Baoding, and form a joint encirclement with the forces of Weize Pass, but the current situation is that the King of Jin does not know all the crises that have occurred in Guangyang, and if he delays more in conquering Baoding, I am afraid that he will be one step behind, resulting in a total loss.

"Of course, Your Highness understands that relying on these 40,000 defenders alone will not be able to resist the eastern part of the country, so you must first formulate a battle plan to relieve the siege in time, as long as we can hold out for ten days, it will not be too late, but if you inform the changes at this time, it will disrupt Your Highness's plan." Shi Niang said: "His Royal Highness had expected that Liu Hongyuan would set up an ambush on the way, if he was eager to change the deployment before the battle, it was very likely that he would be defeated because of lack of preparation. ”

Eleven Niang wandered for a while, and then explained to Ai Lu again: "You go to Guangyang City, inform Meng Shishilang, let him return to Jinyang quickly, and try his best to unite several clans to send private guards." ”

Those who are willing to follow the princess of Jin to help Guangyang, of course, are not only Meng Jiu's sister-in-law and other female dependents, but also many family langjun, originally also brought some private guards, at first just to control the epidemic, but now Shi Niang urgently needs to supplement the military strength of Guangyang, so the manpower brought is far from enough, so she plans to let Meng Shilang run back to Jinyang, and then call some people over, although these private guards, in fact, do not know how to march and fight, but compared to ordinary people, at least they can also ride and shoot, if there is this part of the people to help, at least let the defenders of Guangyang see hope, which plays a role in inspiring the morale of the army.

After this arrangement, Eleven Niang naturally had no intention of sleeping, so she simply returned to Qin Ming's barracks again and waited for news.

Half an hour passed in a blink of an eye, and Tian Bu Wedge finally came out of the ward, standing far away, but his tone was not without excitement: "After taking medicine and applying needles, Qin Lang will already be awake, although the sick body is still weak, but the humble position is sure that there is no big problem, Qin Lang will be plagued, and it has been controlled!" ”

Although Qin Ming's subordinates were surprised, Eleven Niang was also relieved.

She stopped her subordinates from thanking the gods and Buddhas for their protection, and said with a smile: "Sir, I will go to close the door with me to comfort the soldiers, although the outbreak of the epidemic in the army, even Qin Lang will be accidentally infected with the epidemic, but now that many famous doctors are gathered in Guangyang, they will be able to control the epidemic, and the good news that Qin Lang will turn the crisis into safety, and spread the good news to these hot-blooded men and brave men!" ”